Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-10
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
The Funds Available for the Repair
Of Naval Vessels Running Very
Low--AppOintmenis.
The State Department Kept Informed
of the Action of Great Britain
IN Regard TO Hayji,
no Business Places Open IN Washington
To Day but Drug Stores and Under
taking Establishments.
NO EENDS FOR REPAIRS.

NO FUNDS FOR REPAIRS.
! WASHINGTON, April 9.-The funds
available for repairs to naval vessels are
ct very low ebo, and within short
time heavy discharges OF the force will b
made al the navy yard. Reductions have
already been ordered at the Mare Island
Portsmouth and New York navy yards
A large part Of the general appropriation
for the construction and repair Of vessels
has been diverted TO the completion Of the
cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta,
The special appropriation for which failed
with the general deficiency dill. Not
much more than S25, 600 is available fol
repair work at the navy yards during the
remainder of The fiscal year, and this sum
is also subject to drafts from vessels re-
pairing at foreign stations.
WOODEN WAR VESSELS CONDEMNED.
WAsHINGToN, April 9.-As result of
the recent survey Of the United States
steamers Shenandoah and LaCkaWauna at
Mare Island, those vessels will be sold at
puoliC auction and their names will be
stricken from the naval register. There
arc two other wooden naval vessels, the
I Cyaue and Wachusett, now condemned
and awaiting ssle at Mare Island and
three at New York, the Tennessee, Pow
haitian and TiCondeTOga. To- names of
the wooden war ships are rapidly Gisap-
pearing and Mare LslaGd mas acquired
the name Of the nayai graveyard among
naval officers, from the number Of con-
demnaIors of vessels made there.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
WASHINGTON April 9 The President
this afternoon eppOi2ted EnEene Semple
Of Washington territory, governor uI
Washington territory; Samuel d. Slan-
noe # Cheyenne, secretary Of WEOmin =
! territory, and EdE0Td PAmdr Turner u
/ New YJTk, consul at Mozambique.
80 Nay 70 FIGHT WITH.
WAsHNGTON, April "a though 20
official confirm ton M been received st
/ the y, par,ment Of State Of The reports
! that Great Britain has threatened to seize
/ TOrtugss I-Isrd, it is learned that the
/ American Consul 81 Hayti has kept the
department fully info med as to the ma
tufe CT the British claim and all proceed
ingS token by at government against
i&yti during the OasC three or four years.
Now that the matter is reported 10 have
assumed SO serious 3 phase, The govern
ment, wjth2a view to being prepared for
eny emergency, is BEGINNING to CANVASS
its resources in case it should become
necessary to again assert he intention Of
this country to maintain the Monroe doc
trine to The extent Of protecting the small
republics Of the American confident
against the ercrOaChments of European
powers. The result Of the inquiries
INTO the naval resources CT the
United States is not encouraging
fur yz1np DiJNCr
a training squadron are now on their way
northward from the West Indies, and at
present there is no vessel bearing the
American flag in the Haytian waters.
The YantiC is at Key West and the Galeua
is at Aspinwall, and it is possible that
one or both Of these vessels may be or
dered to the vicinity Of Hayti to repre-
sent the United States government in the
event that it may be necessary to enter a
formal protest against European en-
Croachments in the West Indies.
THE DISTRICT SUNDAY LAW.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The commits
sioDers of the District Of Columbia have
decided TO revive the blue laws to NOR
row Sunday and prevent the opening of
any pace of business except apOtheCary
shops and undertaking establishment is.
While the commissioners were going.
through the district laws recently TO find
which of them should be Incorporated in,
the new police regulations as authorized
to be issued by the last Congress, they
discovered an Oh and obsolete law direct
ing the closing of all bus5GesS places ex-
Cept those of druggists, Undertakers and
BARRIERS. A subsequent law closed the
barber shops, so that only the
two former are authorized to remai8
open. The commissioners determined
to enforce the law, and on next Sunday
all news stands, cigar stores, CONNECTION
aries, and possibly oven lunch houses,
will be forced to shut gp. 1t is expected
that test case will be made by some
dealer almost Immediately. While the
commissioners do nos state such to be the
case, their action is believed to be the
outcome of the Enforcement of the law
against Sunday liCEOr selling. This law
hos been infOrCed the last TWO Sundays,
and has proved remarkably successful
owing TO the provision making q second
conviction for this violation work for
Ieiture Of the license.
TO CANCEL PATENTS.
WAsHINGTOck, April 9 -Acti0g Score
taTy MuldroW has recommended TO the
Attorney General that suit De instituted
to cancel patents fvr twenty-five home
stead entri3s made in the town
ship bounded on the eas5 6y Ration
creek AID on the west by
Turner's creek in the Pueblo, Col, land
list. 1t Is charged these entries, witt
one exception, were made N the names.
of fictitious persons, and that the.,mslG'
section contains the largest and fnest
coal deposits in Southern Colorado, the
coal cropping on the surface. Mention
is made OF the statement as significant
that E. B. Sapris, the reputed owner of
these lands, was in 1873 deputy Unised
States surveyor, and as such surveyed
these lands, but made no mentlG2 lof
their mineral character.